Automatic extension update. Is it possible to?

Question

Google Chrome

I have an extension.
When I upload an update to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard
I have to wait about 4-5 days for it to be approved and published.

But I do not need to update the rules specified in the manifest. They stay the same.
I'm surprised at the stupidity of google.
You receive a message in the bug report. You fix and roll out the update.
In order to change > to < in one script file, you need to repack the extension and then wait another week for it to be checked and published.
All this time, the user of your extension will be hating you.
Recently paid attention to the update_url parameter in the manifest. Experienced joy. In fact, it turned out that this is not the address of the update, but the address of garbage, because nothing but " https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx " can be entered there.
But recently I saw a message from the Fair AdBlocker extension. A message like "Your extension has been updated in the background...".
So how can you make sure that the extension is automatically updated?
And is it even possible?
In fact, it doesn’t matter where from the store with a delay of half a month or from a remote server instantly as soon as it is published.
At the same time, Google itself has, for some reason, this https://developers.chrome.com/apps/autoupdate#upda...
What's the point of this? Load develop an extension from a remote server? In general, the nonsense and stupidity of Google, as a developer, makes me permanently facepalm.

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24100507/how-o...
https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/extensions/co...

// If auto-updates are turned on, default to running every 5 hours.
const int kDefaultUpdateFrequencySeconds = 60 * 60 * 5;

You can override this by launching chrome with the extensions-update-frequency command-line parameter, which is the frequency in seconds. And you can go to chrome://extensions, tick the Developer mode checkbox at the top right, then press the Update Extensions Now button
Chrome docs doesn't specify this 5 hour value though, so it could change in future versions without notice:
Every few hours, the browser checks whether any installed extensions or apps have an update URL. For each one, it makes a request to that URL looking for an update manifest XML file.